- Shawn’s Zero, electric zero-turn mower. Shawn was the big guy (on the electric team) in the Monster Garage EV episode. Shawn also created an EV dragster, Orange Juice. More news on the mower.
- File this under better late than never (I forgot to post about it): the Midwest AFV Expo (alt fueled vehicles) is this Saturday the 13th in Joliet, IL. More info over at FVEAA.org. Sounds like a number of fellow EV’ers will be there.
- I stumbled across Chris’s ‘94 Geo Electricar in the EVAlbum. What caught my eye is the removable battery pack.
- ProEV has a nice photo series on how to build your own braided battery interconnects. They also make up some longer straps.
- Not ready for EVs yet (if ever) but it might be cool to have one or two of these flywheels buried in the back yard storing wind/sun/hydro energy during the day to be dumped into your EV at night and augment the household power.
- An interesting article on the history of maps.
0 to 00 gauge interconnects for 700A? That sounds mighty small to me.
For my progect, I was hoping to use busbars and at least 00 ga wire, if not 0000 ga.
The distance is short, but you can still have very significant I^2 losses due to the cummulative distance and currents involved.
Hi Jerry,
Here’s a link to some more photos of the stubby version of Orange Juice, which was lovingly called “Orange Concentrate” by those at the Power of DC last year. Here’s the link
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